Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, Microsoft’s Bill Laing, Cloud and Enterprise Corporate Vice President, took the stage in front of 3,000 attendees to announce Microsoft’s participation in the community, which is focused on engineering the most efficient hardware for cloud and high-scale computing through open collaboration.

Laing also announced a major OCP community contribution – the Microsoft cloud server specification, which essentially provides the blueprints for Microsoft’s datacenter servers that are designed to deliver the world’s most diverse portfolio of cloud services, including Windows Azure, Office 365, and Bing.